Don't Want To Retain Commenters' Email Addresses...Ever

billg · 2006-02-09 03:33:40

How can I ensure that TxP does not retain the email addresses of commenters?

A secondary issue is that I want to eliminate the Forget/Remember toggle displayed by comment_form.

I want to guarantee visitors that their email addresses are never published and never retained. The “never published” part is handled in site preferences. The apparent purpose of the Forget/Remember toggle is to set a cookie with the address if the user checks Remember, but I’m sure that, during tests of a new site, I’ve seen the address retained when the user simply failed to check the Forget box. It’s visible in the page source any time it is displayed as the default in the form. (Perhaps it depends on browser settings. Still, I want to eliminate retention of addresses in any form.)

Some more questions:

1. Where is the Help section for forum? I tried to include a snippet of code in this post but it was deleted when I previewed it.
2. There are 4 apparent options listed below this form. (BBCode, [img]tag, Smilies, and Textile. How do I toggle them on or off? They aren’t accessible via my profile.
3. Before posting this, I searched the entire forum for “email” and “email AND address”. Both returned “no hits”, repeatedly. Obviously, that’s incorrect. Is something amiss?

Elenita · 2006-02-09 03:56:42

Tackling things one at a time:

I suppose that you could get rid of the email input field in the form itself. That’ll make it impossible for users to enter their email addresses.

The Forget/Remember is controlled by the <code><txp:comment_remember /></code> tag. Feel free to delete that also. If they can’t check it in the first place, those cookies will never be “sent out,” as it would be. The users who already retained them should delete them, and they won’t come back. At least I don’t think they will….

Re: posting code: if you wrap everything in < code > tags (without spaces), it will show up. More info in the <a href=“http://textpattern.com/faq/43/how-do-i-post-tags-and-code-on-the-forum”>FAQ</a>

The BBCode, etc. options are misleading. Users cannot turn those on or off. Sorry.

And last but not least, I have no idea if the search is malfunctioning or not. But hopefully, a mod can take a look at things (hint, hint…)

Hope this helps!

Anark · 2006-02-09 03:58:06

The advanced prefs allow you to make e-mail addresses non-mandatory. Do that, then remove the e-mail field and the checkbox altogether.

For code, use the HTML code tag. Think of it as local folklore, passed on orally.

Formatting options are preset and you can’t change them.

Like in every other place, local search sucks. Use Google and limit your search to a single site.

billg · 2006-02-09 12:05:52

Thanks, guys. I’m sorry I didn’t make it clear that I don’t want to eliminate the requirement to provide an address before posting. I just don’t want to retain it. My question was prompted because, during testing, I noticed that the address I used was visible in the source if I did not check the default Forget. I also noticed that if I checked Remember, and then subsequently checked Forget on a following comment, it would revert to the Remember status.

1beb · 2006-02-09 18:28:38

That would be a cookie, on your computer that holds that data. Not Textpattern. Although, for arguments sake, if they supply you with an email address textpattern will save it to the db. There is no automatic method of removing these from the database. You can either do it by hand by editing their comments or you can do it through a mysql query.

HTH

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Don't Want To Retain Commenters' Email Addresses...Ever

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